GT Sport's New Time Trial Mode Immediately Plagued By Cheating

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This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:

GT Sport's New Time Trial Mode Immediately Plagued By Cheating

This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on August 1st, 2019 in the Gran Turismo Sport category.

 

[stpatty]

Heads up: "Here is a video which shows the chat in action:"

Cutting half the track from a Willow Springs layout is necessary to make it bearable, so I'm quite okay with this

 

[ss3]

IMO once this is fixed. Time trial racing like rally will be much more enjoyable than actually racing people on track. Less room for mistakes and nudging, people running you off the track and into the walls

 

[MikeyLCR]

Hope they fix it now, there have been reported short cuts for willow before but they've always ignored it.

I still think you have to be a bit of a d**k to cheat just to get your name on the board though.

 

[8l23ub]

Wow, thats pretty broken.
I did a couple of laps and said to myself no way am i making that time up. Didnt watch any of the top twenty odd laps

 

[Famine]

Wow, thats pretty broken.
I did a couple of laps and said to myself no way am i making that time up. Didnt watch any of the top twenty odd laps

I went through every lap with a video and the first one I found that was valid was 118th. 118th. And that was six hours back.

This is also one of my favourite GT images ever:

 

[praiano63]

Thanks god that nobody have discovered this other cheat till now .
It's possible to take a shortcut from the Ex-muhle bridge exit the last straight.

 

[dimassa19]

Missed in the text that there is no problem in Nurburgring.

 

[coryclifford]

Seriously pathetic drivers.

 

[Epic B]

PD better patch this and reset the leaderboards on this one fast. Willow Springs in general is really bad for this.

 

[NoStopN]

I thought I read in the announcement article here that they will have these events for 2 weeks, am I right? Gives them time to patch it, reset, & let people set legitimate times.

 

[andrewhake]

Wow suddenly I don't feel so bad about the first couple of laps I put in compared to the fastest hahaha.

Heads up: "Here is a video which shows the chat in action:"

Cutting half the track from a Willow Springs layout is necessary to make it bearable, so I'm quite okay with this

I honestly think it is the worst track in the world.

 

[CTznOfTime]

Thanks god that nobody have discovered this other cheat till now .
It's possible to take a shortcut from the Ex-muhle bridge exit the last straight.

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Lol the "shortcut" looks to be even longer than the regular normal route...

 

[praiano63]

Lol the "shortcut" looks to be even longer than the regular normal route...

Wolves and bears in the forest , imperative no stop strategy .

 

[bloodyboyblue]

Thanks god that nobody have discovered this other cheat till now .
It's possible to take a shortcut from the Ex-muhle bridge exit the last straight.

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That’s the Joker Lap for the upcoming World RallyX round at the Nordschleife

 

[ARTAsean]

I honestly think it is the worst track in the world.

Because you’re spoiled by formulaic Tilke-o-dromes with paved runoffs at every corner that cost you nothing for a mistake.

Willow Springs (just like Goodwood) is one of the very few historic raceways still unchanged since the golden era of racing. It’s a goddamn legend. If you refuse to learn the track you have no one to blame but yourself for your discontentment.

 

[SUPRASTAR0003]

Well done PD.

 

[GT235]

Has anyone seen the youtuber Super GT live stream, he also cut the last bends of the circuit, he's in the top 60 right now.

Super GT livestream (in 50:39 minutes):

In evaluative terms, would he be one of the punished pilots ?

 

[YukinoSuzuka]

Well, wouldn't be a very nice tool for PD to clean up Sport mode this way? Once in a while misbehaving drivers will get a ban from using this kind of shortcuts, I would bet those are the same 'drivers' who would do anything to get more into the the front of the field and defending their places a bit too hard..

If so..

Nice move PD, nice move

 

[EinsTheOne]

Because you’re spoiled by formulaic Tilke-o-dromes with paved runoffs at every corner that cost you nothing for a mistake.

Willow Springs (just like Goodwood) is one of the very few historic raceways still unchanged since the golden era of racing. It’s a goddamn legend. If you refuse to learn the track you have no one to blame but yourself for your discontentment.

I dislike Willow Springs, not because of its lack of paved runoff areas, but because of the desert setting... Being surrounded by nothing but sand makes me feel very unwelcome...

I would easily forgive the uninspiring sets of corners if there was grass around them..

I'd easily pick Goodwood over Willow Springs any day of the week....

 

[wolf4263]

PD should not only ban the cheaters, but ban their consoles as well.

 

[Lazybike]

TT mode needs it's own penalty system, 4 wheels off track then lap void and restart.

 

[Lord Protector]

"This is why we can’t have nice things."

so honest

 

[Kuraudo]

TT mode needs it's own penalty system, 4 wheels off track then lap void and restart.

Just like the old Licence tests. Zero chance for any error.

 

[G.T.Ace]

Three wheels off-track = invalid lap. Should be easy to fix.

 

[Matthew_Bogus]

Because you’re spoiled by formulaic Tilke-o-dromes with paved runoffs at every corner that cost you nothing for a mistake.

Willow Springs (just like Goodwood) is one of the very few historic raceways still unchanged since the golden era of racing. It’s a goddamn legend. If you refuse to learn the track you have no one to blame but yourself for your discontentment.

Well said, it's a great track! I love Horse Thief Mile as well too. I love this track, you make a mistake, you pay. It forces you to concentrate and watch the white lines!

 

[QC YALUM]

Wow a shame lolll cheating or bug exploitation won't make you a better driver

 

[Silver_Wolf]

Well this new time trial mode being made available should hopefully ensure PD clean up their act when it comes to setting qualifying
and time trial laps.

This is one of those things that I will never do when it comes to a game and I hope that when we get the bug fix file this is resolved
but don't forget to fix the shortcut on Horse Theif Mile too!

 

[Veinz]

It's laughable, I bet most of the people who do this will defend themselves and say "well the game allows it and it's the same for everyone, so it's legit..."
*cringe*

Makes me wonder how hard it is for developers to do proper track limits, literally every racing game I've ever played has problems like this. In a perfect world, 4 wheels off would mean lap invalidated in TT.

 

[FoRiZon]

TT mode needs it's own penalty system, 4 wheels off track then lap void and restart.

Gran Turismo 5/6 has one.

Oh.